Unkind fate strikes and Jacob hits the road, but he fortuitously winds up aboard a train carrying the Benzini Circus to its next gig. We are then introduced to Jacob as a young man (Robert Pattison), studying veterinary medicine at Cornell University. It turns out Jacob had a circus career that began in 1931 with the ill-fated Benzini Brothers troupe (the prologue lets us know that the Benzini Brothers didnвЂ™t go past that year). The view of the Depression is what might be called вЂњprogressive,вЂќ but itвЂ™s hardly modern вЂ“ John Steinbeck was writing with a similar attitude seven decades ago.ДЄ brief prologue introduces us to now elderly Jacob Jankowski (Hal Holbrook), who arrives just as a traveling circus is closing up shop on a rainy night.

The most modern aspects of the movie are concern for animals and acknowledgment that quite a few non-humans were and are smarter than humans gave them credit for. Writer: Richard LaGravenese, based on the novel by Sara GruenД«ased on Sara GruenвЂ™s novel, WATER FOR ELEPHANTS is a big movie that feels in many ways like it could have been made in the вЂ50s or вЂ60s, with its forbidden romance, circus spectacle and mostly noble hero. Stars: Reese Witherspoon, Robert Pattinson, Christoph Waltz, Paul Schneider, Jim Norton, Hal Holbrook

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